"I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what he was trying to do, which was just entertain. Which he does very successfully, though the humor is almost dated now."

-- John Gimlette

#Trying Quotes #Doe Quotes #Half Quotes

“Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?”
“A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.”
“We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.”
“I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new visions and dreams. For me to grow up in that family, that also helped me to have a vision to create and open boundaries and things. So I think it's like, it just comes from the family.”

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“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”
“All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.”
“And I don't mean that the storytelling that's out there shouldn't be happening. I just feel like that there's this huge imbalance with it all. Where are the shows that allow the entire family to sit down and enjoy something together?”
“Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.”

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